TIME WELL SPENT

On Friday nights my two fabulous grand kids

come stay the night at my house. We 

have this little ritual that we do.  When I put
each of them into their bed, I kneel beside it and I
make up a story to tell them.  Then it's their time and
they can't tell a story from a book, they also
have to make up a story.  We have many
silly moments of laughter because some of
our stories can get pretty funny as my
imagination and theirs gets pretty wild
at times. 

After we finished our ritual last night, it was

time to pray and my grand-daughter began to 

talk about God.  She said,"I don't know that I

really know very much about God."  She 

had tried to tell a friend once about God

and said it was hard to explain to someone

who had never heard about God, to understand. 

I explained to her that it's hard for even us adults

to understand all we need to know about God.

As we talked she said, "I just don't understand

how he can make the stars and sky, the water, and

the trees and everything that he made.  I tried to 

explain how he just spoke the words and they were 

there.  She said, that's really hard to understand.  As 

I knelt there with her a bit I thought I needed to come up 

with something she can see with her eyes enough to 

let her little mind latch onto the awesome power of God

and then we can move on and start building off that. 

I told her to take an invisible canvas into her hands 

We reached picked up the canvas, then the brush,  We 

together painted an awesome picture and we stopped 

and told each other what all we had painted onto 

the canvas and we both realized, it's just an

invisible canvas of things we painted.  Then I said,

"here is what happens when God picks up an 

invisible canvas."  He paints the stars and they

jump off the canvas and come alive.  He paints the 

moon and it jumps off the canvas and comes alive

and he keeps painting trees, fish, birds and even people

and every time he paints something it jumps off the canvas

and comes alive because of the great great power of this

Almighty God, things just come alive.  Her little eyes got 

so big and she sat up in the bed and said, "MeeMee! God

has to have a lot, a lot, a lot of power to make a drawing 

coming to life.  He can't just be a person like you and me, 

he has to have a whole lot of power.  

Wow, the magic moment when the truth of the power of 

the Almighty God hits the understanding of a child.  Makes 

me realize that I so much more need to trust in the power 

of this Almighty God because he didn't stop 2000 years ago 

after he created the universe.  This same power is alive

and still creating and moving today and we so 

underestimate it.  

After our canvas discussion I was able to go a step further 

and explain that our God didn't really use a canvas and

a brush but that he just breathed out the words and 

everything began to be created.  She once again said, 

wow that's just a whole lot of power.  She is 

correct, our God has a whole lot, a lot, a lot

of power. 

 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the earth was without form, and void; 

and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face 

of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: 

and there was light.  And God saw the light, 

that it was good: and God divided the light from 

the darkness.  And God called the light Day, and the darkness 

he called Night. And the evening and the morning 

were the first day.

Genesis 1: 1-5

The whole creation story is told in Genesis chapter one and two.


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